Certificate Overview

This post graduate certificate program equips Social Work, Health, and Education Professionals to better understand populations of women from collectivist cultures, especially women from South Asia or the Indian Subcontinent. 

For questions contact Program Director: Associate Professor Shweta Singh, ssingh9@luc.edu | ph: 312-915-7249.

Watch Professor Shweta Singh's video presentation to learn more: SAWG Certificate Presentation

The program can be completed in 1 year. Students will take courses beginning in the Fall semester and will continue in the spring and summer semesters.

This program consists of 15 credit hours, with 7 courses, delivered asynchronously online over the course of a year. The courses include courses in health, work, and evaluation and an elective 2 week immersion trip to India.  

Curriculum

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Courses
SOWK 663	Women in a Global Context	3
SOWK 606	Practicum in Research & Evaluation	3
Additional Course Titles
SOWK 634	Special Topics 1	3
SOWK 634	Special Topics 1	3
SOWK 634	Special Topics 1	3
Total Hours		15

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Students choose from the following topics:  Working Women in Emerging Economies; Immersion in India, Nepal, and Bhutan; India Reader Workshop in Chicago; and Women in Diaspora.

Graduate & Professional Standards and Regulations

Students in graduate and professional programs can find their Academic Policies in Graduate and Professional Academic Standards and Regulations under their school. Any additional University Policies supersede school policies.

Learning Outcomes

• Demonstrate the ability to communicate, interact effectively with different audiences, and undertake skilled advocacy for social and economic justice across mediums for marginalized women.
• Recognize and analyze complex global issues of poverty, violence, and unemployment and other systems of oppression as experienced by women belonging to low-resource societies, particularly South Asia or Indian Subcontinent.